Kelly Winn’s one of those crafty mamas that I envy admire.
In 2003, when her first daughter was born. She looked over at her growing bow collection and thought, “Why am I buying bows? Surely I can make them!” There’s that craftiness kickin’ in. But, as I’ve learned and Kelly confirmed, good bows are much harder to make than she ever thought. But, she worked at it and perfected her new craft. Before long, she was selling bows from the back basket of her stroller as moms like me would stop and admire her girly girls’ bows.
Her stroller shop grew to an online store in 2006 when she taught herself some html coding (umm…yup, I envy admire her). By 2010, she had shipped bows to customers in all 50 states. Now, that’s pretty cool.
In 2008, Kelly’s heart was opened to orphans around the world. Their family began sponsoring a child at a foster home in China and sending bows for all the girls in their care. She started using Girly Girl Boutique for giveaways and fundraisers to help adoptive families, which is how I first found out about her shop. And, they have recently made the decision to grow their family through adoption as well (Yahoo!). She is selling key fobs to raise money for their own adoption as she continues with Girly Girl Boutique as her outreach.
Kelly told me—
It makes my heart sing to receive pictures in my inbox of beautiful girls wearing items my hands have created and sweet thank yous from moms. Most importantly, I love that I am able to earn funds with my hands that I can gift to others.
Go check out her clips, bows of all sizes and styles, soft baby headbands, hard ribbon and fabric covered headbands, hair flowers, doll headbands, ponytail streamers, and more! And, thank her for supporting The Sparrow Fund by giving 10% of all sales from girly girls around the world during the month of May.
